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AHOCT - Episode 22 - Athenagoras and Theophilus

A History of Christian Theology

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Creatia Ex Nihilo - Theology of Theology

Theophilus is the first person to use what is in latin creatio ex nihilo, which is creation out of nothing. He says that if matter is pre existent and is eternal, like god, it is in some way as good as god. This is one reason he thinks that the philosophers are wrong. And ad theopheles is one of the first to argue for creatxnilo.

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